Diagnostic performance of point-of-care and central laboratory cardiac troponin assays in an emergency department.

Early diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI) with cardiac troponin (cTn) assays at the point-of-care (POC) is suggested to shorten turn-around-time in the emergency department (ED). The present study aimed at comparing the diagnostic performance of two POC cTn assays with that of a central laborato...

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Main Authors: Petra Wilke, Annette Masuch, Oliver Fahron, Stephanie Zylla, Tobias Leipold, Astrid Petersmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5705122?pdf=render